Yang Huairen looked at the raging fire on Liang Mountain, and his mood was a little complicated. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but I don't know why, the two or three hundred thieves on the mountain were all burned to death by him with a fire, but he didn't have the inner torture after killing people before.

Perhaps it is the method of setting fire, without having to watch a person die in front of him, which is completely different from the impact on a person's mind by stabbing a sharp blade into a person's body and watching the light of life disappear from the other person's eyes.

But after all, a fire burned hundreds of people to death, and Yang Huairen didn't know what was wrong with him, could it be that after experiencing many things, he really became cruel?

If so, what is the difference between him and someone like Empress Dowager Gao who treats human life like a mustard?

He Zhiyun looked at the expression on his face and grabbed his hand, wanting to give him some comfort from his relatives.

Yang Huairen turned his head and looked at her with a faint smile, as if to say that at this time, he didn't need comfort.

Life needs to be respected, cherished, and revered by each of us. But at a special time, standing in a special position and looking at it from a special angle, if he didn't ruthlessly order the two or three hundred bandits to be set on fire, then thousands of fishermen around Liangshanbo would be displaced because of the loss of their source of livelihood.

What's even more terrifying is that if Chai Zhizu used the stronghold of Liangshan to recruit and contact more people to really rebel, more innocent lives would have been lost in the war.

Yang Huairen knew in advance what would happen to the Great Song Dynasty twenty or thirty years later, when the foreign invasion of the Central Plains, millions of lives were lost in that national catastrophe, so before he prevented all this from happening, the Great Song Dynasty could not afford to stop any civil strife.

Kindness and cruelty are relative, and being merciful to the enemy is cruelty to one's own people, so Yang Huairen has long made up his mind that he doesn't need comfort, he just did what he thought was right.

The sudden northwest wind tonight was lucky for Yang Huairen, just like the east wind borrowed by Zhuge Liang back then, if there was no such wind, maybe things would not have gone so smoothly.

The fire quickly burned to the top of the mountain, and the pace did not stop, but continued to burn to the eastern slope, and the dead trees all over the mountain were burned to ashes in the blink of an eye in the fire, and Liangshan turned into a volcano tonight.

Yang Huairen felt that no one could escape from the fire, the raging fire quickly burned out the air on the ground, and the air pressure would suck the air from the east slope into the flames, and the people who fled to the east slope would also die of suffocation.

The dock was also hot, and Yang Huairen hurriedly ordered everyone to get on the boat and leave.

The soldiers guarding the city on the wall of Yuncheng County saw the fire on Liangshan from a distance, and excitedly hurried to the county government to report to the county commander Wang Wenfu Wang.

Wang Wenfu was in his forties, and he was about to play Greco-Roman wrestling with a young and beautiful concubine he had just accepted, but he heard many people shouting outside the door to find him.

He had just taken off his pants at this moment, and the little brother finally lifted his waist under the teasing of the little concubine, and was so frightened by them that he shrank back in fright.

Wang Wenfu looked annoyed, and scolded while wearing pants: "What's the noise? Is the county office on fire?! ”

The master of the county government is in his thirties, and he said excitedly outside the door: "My lord, it is indeed on fire, but it is not the county government, it is Liangshan!" ”

"What?"

Wang Xianling looked suspicious, how could the good Liangshan catch fire? Besides, even if it was on fire, there was water everywhere on the edge of Liangshan, so they didn't need to rush to report it.

"Calm down!"

Wang Wenfu put on his clothes and pushed the door of the house, pointed to the young master and said, "You are just too young, what is the big deal about the fire in Liangshan?" Is it worth all the fuss you guys are all about? ”

A marquis guarding the city behind the master hurriedly said: "My lord, there is a fire on Liangshan, this fire is big, our county is at least more than 20 miles away from Liangshan, looking from the city wall, the direction of Liangshan is a sea of fire, it seems that the entire Liangshan is about to burn out." ”

"Burn...... Burned out!? ”

Wang Wenfu was shocked, thinking that these people were making a big fuss, but he never thought that it would be such a result. If that's the case, then it's a really good thing for him.

Liangshan thieves have been rampant in the past few years, and his superiors have urged him many times to unite with the local Xiang army to exterminate them together, but where does he have the courage to provoke these outlaws?

As the commander of Yuncheng County, he knows best what the situation in Liangshan is, deep in the water, easy to defend and difficult to attack, with the dozens of servants under his hands, coupled with hundreds of lazy and accustomed van troops in the city, without ships and enough bows and arrows, they can't even attack Liangshan, even if they are close.

He had long complained privately that he was unlucky to be a county magistrate in such a place, and since the rampant bandits in Liangshan, many traders and fishermen in the surrounding area have lost their livelihoods, further shrinking the already pitiful taxes in Yuncheng County.

And the officials above him only gave orders to him, but refused to provide any personnel and material help, he couldn't suppress the bandits, so he ended up with a pig Bajie looking in the mirror, no matter where the people or his boss were, there was no good person.

He was in his early forties and had a great career, but if his future was ruined, he would never have a chance to be promoted, so he had to get by.

What he didn't expect was that today's ingots happened to fall in his yard. He had never heard of the official report of any army mobilization to suppress the bandits, and guessed in his heart that it might be the thieves' own stupidity that caused the fire, coupled with the sudden strong wind tonight, which caused the entire Liangshan to be burned to ashes.

When Wang Wenfu thought of this, his whole body was in good spirits, thinking that as long as he took advantage of the current situation to send people around Liangshanbo to catch a few "fish that escaped from the net" that escaped from the sea of fire, he could be said to have sent someone to design and attack Liangshan with fire.

This is a great achievement, as long as you catch a few thieves and minions at random, and then torture them to extract a confession, you are not afraid that you will not get the confession he wants.

After that, what he has to do is to portray himself as a good official who eliminates harm for the people, and then report the matter of his outwitting and suppressing bandits, and promotion and fortune are just around the corner.

Wang Xianling held back his beautiful mood, summoned three classes of fast arrest and more than half of the city guards, and ordered the master to hurry up and organize hundreds of villagers to be brave and strong, and rushed to the vicinity of Liangshanbo overnight, striving to catch a few bandits and come back.

Not long after Yang Huairen and the others left Liangshan by boat, a head suddenly appeared on the shore of the wharf lake, and a man trembled and climbed ashore with great difficulty......